Dell takes open systems storage sales top spot | | 2008-06-30 | | Dell has taken the lead in worldwide sales of open systems storage sales with a 20.4 percent share by revenue worth $422 million - representing a 21 percent year-over-year increase in controller-based storage revenue.
Its closest competitor, thought to be EMC, claimed 18.5 percent share and $384 million in revenue.
The figures come from the "Quarterly Statistics: Disk Array Storage, All Regions, All Countries" report released by industry analysts Gartner on June 6th.
The company also increased its share of the iSCSI-based SANs market to take the number one position with more than twice the revenue of the next leading vendor.
With data expanding at a rate faster than computer systems, driven by digital content creation in all media – including audio, video and graphical – and the proliferation of email and data sharing of all kinds, the amount of data that needs to be stored by business and consumers alike is growing exponentially.
Darren Thomas, Dell Enterprise Storage VP and GM, said: “We believe taking the lead in the Windows/Linux external storage market is significant. This is the high-growth segment, and we plan to continue demonstrating leadership throughout our entire family of storage systems, including PowerVault, Dell/EMC and EqualLogic.”
Dell shipped over 116 petabytes in external disk storage for Windows/Linux servers in Q1, representing 95 percent of the total of 122 petabytes of external disk storage Dell ships each quarter.
“That is an astounding amount of storage capacity,” said Thomas. As a comparison, it is estimated by some that the total printed matter contained by all U.S. academic research libraries equals only two petabytes.3 All told, Dell ships more than an estimated 288 petabytes of total disk storage each week within all of its products – including servers, desktops, laptops and enterprise storage systems – in order to accommodate the demand for storage in the digital universe.
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